Yes, Sabermetrics Ruined Baseball. Do you like games that just get longer and longer? Are you allergic to balls being hit into play? Do you enjoy watching foul… after foul… after foul… after foul? Do you hate the excitement and unpredictability of a stolen base? Well have I got a sport for you!

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Baseball is a thinking man's game. The reliance on the home run and strikeout to keep customers has turned a strategic (as well as athletic to some point) event into instant gratification that gets boring after an hour, instead of keeping you interested for two or three hours.

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sounds like you'd like the dead ball era from before 1920

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Maybe.

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babe ruth kind of started the reliance on a home run thing